Commanders Coach Ron Rivera Proud of Washington’s ‘Resilience’ After Win vs. Colts

The Washington Commanders are pleased after profitable their third straight sport Sunday in opposition to the Indianapolis Colts.

Trailing by two scores late within the fourth quarter, Washington wanted to tug out all of the stops and never panic to seize the win. And that is precisely what they did.

Head coach Ron Rivera talked after the sport and shared his pleasure for his crew’s resilience in a come-from-behind victory.

“Simply their resilience and the way in which they continued to consider,” Rivera stated submit sport. “You come to the sideline and simply earlier than we went out and kicked the sphere purpose, their guys are speaking about, hey, we have simply acquired to get it down into discipline purpose vary and we’ll go from there. Protection was like, hey, Coach, if we get again on the market, we are able to get that cease, we are able to get the ball again. That was a few actual optimistic angle issues.”

The Commanders wanted a landing to take the lead with 30-odd seconds left within the fourth quarter. Taylor Heinicke discovered “homecoming star” Terry McLaurin on a protracted ball to arrange a primary and purpose, with Washington punching it in to safe a well-known win.

Rivera spoke about McLaurin’s return to Indianapolis and said that the receiver dealt with it as a daily sport.

“He did, he dealt with it as a standard sport,” Rivera stated. “Simply the truth that quite a lot of us had been conscious that this was his homecoming, and I knew early on we acquired him the ball a pair instances, he made a few massive performs early on, and that was massive for him.”

With three wins on the bounce, issues are beginning to occur for the Commanders. The locker room chemistry is starting to construct, which Rivera desires to construct on.

“I feel it is what’s coming,” Rivera stated on chemistry constructing. “I feel it is a good group of younger males. There is a group of fellows that they like hanging round with one another. I imply, you take a look at the issues that they’ve carried out and issues that they do and simply being round it makes for an excellent locker room and, and once more, issues may be very optimistic whenever you’re profitable and so we have simply gotta construct on this, this can be a nice alternative for us to construct on.”

There’s definitely an excellent feeling across the crew proper now. With three consecutive wins and now going through the Minnesota Vikings and the Philadelphia Eagles within the subsequent two weeks, Washington has an opportunity to make an announcement and construct on that spectacular chemistry already being constructed.

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